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uuPrepare is an arexx script that will massage the raw uuencoded
data uuIn puts out into a form more accepted by the net.
It takes a binary file to encode, and optionaly a header file.
If a header file is given, its contents will appear at the top of
each data file.
At the moment uuPrepare just adds the header, and a headline and
tailine to the data.
For example,
uuIn myfile myfile.uu
outputs:
begin 644 myfile
MODJHGOEHGOTHVTRHG;EHG;O4HEGHWE;GHO;ERHGOHE
...
end
size 123
while
rx uuPrepare myfile
outputs to numbered files "myfile.uu1" through "myfile.uuX"
<header file>
----BEGIN----begin----myfile----part 1--------------------------
begin 644 myfile
MODJHGOEHGOTHVTRHG;EHG;O4HEGHWE;GHO;ERHGOHE
...
-----END------end-----myfile----part 1--------------------------
...
<header file>
----BEGIN----begin----myfile----part X--------------------------
...
end
size 123
-----END------end-----myfile----part X--------------------------
The header and tail lines are added for the benifit of some
multiple-part uudecoders that use them when concatenating and
decoding the data.
uuPrepare is intended to be a starting point for people who wish to
create an automatic poster arexx program to post binary files to
internet newsgroups with the minimum human interaction. All alone
it is an interresting toy, but I don't see many great uses for it.
For this reason, uuPrepare is public domain.
uuPrepar has one limitation: the filenames must contain no spaces.
This is because the "easy" arexx command line parsing is used, so
double-quotes are not interpreted as a special symbol.
-Nicolas Dade